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Track Listings
| 1. Feeling This |
| 2. Obvious |
| 3. I Miss You |
| 4. Violence |
| 5. Stockholm Syndrome |
| 6. Down |
| 7. The Fallen Interlude |
| 8. Go |
| 9. Asthenia |
| 10. Always |
| 11. Easy Target |
| 12. All Of This |
| 13. Here's Your Letter |
| 14. I'm Lost Without You |
| 15. Not Now (UK Bonus Track) |
| 16. Anthem Part Two (Live UK Bonus Track) |
| 17. Feeling This (Video) |
| 18. Obvious (Video) |
| 19. Down/The Fallen Interlude (Video) |
| 20. Violence (Video) |
Product Description
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Save one salty reference to sporting an embarrassing "boner during PE", the eponymous Blink 182, the band's fifth studio album is mercifully bereft of the references to farts and turds that have littered the lyrics of preceding million-sellers such as Enema of the State. Both Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge have become proud dads and thus have familiarised themselves with the fragrant pleasures of the 3.30am soiled-nappy change. Suddenly, shit isn't funny anymore, which is probably just as well seeing as Blink 182's comedic turns make the average Carry On film look like something by Moliere. Otherwise it's pretty much business as usual. Guitar buzz, girl troubles and teenage hormone dilemmas, big chanting choruses come flying out like volleys of snot from a pit bull terrier's nose and the whole thing sounds like Bob Mould's Sugar fronted by the imaginary snivelling younger sibling of Dean Friedman. While "Easy Target" bucks the trend by indulging in snarling minor-chord meltdown and Robert Smith of the Cure is commendably mopey on "All of This", to call this loveably hummable buffed-up racket "punk" would be wholly disrespectful to the much cherished memory of Sham 69 or the Lurkers. The fans will love it, of course, but the uncommitted will find themselves somewhat boner-less, even during PE. --Kevin Maidment
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
blink-182 are one of those bands that seemed like they would never grow up but as this album proves, they have. I'm a huge fan of their earlier releases like Cheshire Cat and Dude Ranch and I have to admit that when I first listened through the album I was shocked. Where were the jokes, the funny songs and the great riffs? Had they put the wrong CD in the case?
After I'd listened to the album a few more times it really grew on me and there are many outstanding tracks on the album but at the same time there are still tracks which make you want to press skip on your CD player.
The musicianship is amazing and there are lots of strange effects in almost every song with layers of guitars and one song uses 4(!) basses on the outro so there is always something new to pick up on each time you hear the album and great depth to every song. You can really tell they spent a long time on each song to make it 'perfect'.
If you are a blink fan chances are you'll buy this album anyway to make up your own mind about it, but if you are still not sure whether to get it or not, I would say buy it. You may think it's the worst thing you've heard in ages and blink are no-more (like me) but I can assure you three or four listens later you'll be hooked and realise that, whilst not the greatest blink album, it's right up there.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By D. Watmuff
Format:Audio CD
Blink 182 introduced me to the music that I listen to today, the very first time I heard 'All The Small Things'. If it wasnt for them I wouldn't be into such great music. I loved all of their previous albums, I loved seeing them live with their great jokes and laughs.
Then this album arrived, I was just the same as everybody else who critisized it for being nothing like their previous outings. I made myself hate it because it just wasn't Blink. Now nearly 3 years down the line, knowing that they had split up. I started listening to this album again and I realised what a great album it is, even though they changed their sound it is a masterpiece and they went out on a high note.
Thanks Blink for all your great music.
Then this album arrived, I was just the same as everybody else who critisized it for being nothing like their previous outings. I made myself hate it because it just wasn't Blink. Now nearly 3 years down the line, knowing that they had split up. I started listening to this album again and I realised what a great album it is, even though they changed their sound it is a masterpiece and they went out on a high note.
Thanks Blink for all your great music.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Whilst waiting for this album to come out i knew from various articals that the blink boys wanted to do something different, or more heavier, and this is the finished item, and any Blink fan or Punk fan will love it. Gone are the jokes and pop sounding music and now we have a much darker side, it is a shame that they could not have done this sooner but should have know that it was in the wind with Tom off doing the BCR project and Travis off with the Transplants the music was always getting heavier.
All songs are fantastic in there own way with everything you could want from a Punk band, i was a fan from the start and thought that Dude Ranch was there best effort yet with TOYPAJ running a close second, but this eclipses both of them, stand out tracks have to be Feeling this, I Miss You, Go, All of this (which is the best on the album with Robert Smith of the Cure guesting)and I'm lost without you, but every song sounds great apart from Obvious which to me sounds to much like Tiny Voices off the BCR album.
But if your looking for a much darker heavier feel to Blink 182 then you'll be happy, even if your not then this is still an album to have, the boys have grown up and producing the music they should be, to a great sounding finish, and Travis gives the best drumming experience you will ever hear on one album, so all in all Superb, fantastic best blink album yet !!!!!!!!!!.
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blink-182 self titled
First of all i actually bought this album years ago but now i just purchased the tour edition of the self-titled album (which i would recommend getting as you get the album along... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jamie Hinton
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Blink 182- Blink 182 CD
In my opinion this is the best Blink 182 CD. It also has a really good DVD which contains some good home made videos.
Published 3 months ago by Derek Foy
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Blinking incredible!!
One of my favourite albums of all time! I bought it after hearing Feeling this and I miss you back in 2004 when I was 14! Read more
Published 16 months ago by Matt182
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Boys become Men
The best Blink 182 album bar the greatest hits. The band prove more than a comedy band and a cut above the copycats i.e Sum 41 with songs like Feelin This, Miss you. Read more
Published 20 months ago by ekb
4.0 out of 5 stars
Feelin' This?
Hard to give this a bad review as it is actually a very well thought through collection of songs. It could have been shaved by a few tracks but on the whole it's at least an... Read more
Published 21 months ago by ratmonkey
5.0 out of 5 stars
Blink 182 but more mature.
As many other reviews have said this album is quite different from the older Blink 182 stuff. It has a more mature sound, more refined and slightly easier to listen to in my... Read more
Published on 2 Feb 2011 by J.Moore
5.0 out of 5 stars
Blink grow up!
Amazing album! The dvd is brilliant as well pick it up now while its cheap!
Published on 22 Oct 2010 by MattL93
3.0 out of 5 stars
Close but no cigar
I do like a lot of Blink stuff ...its just a shame that their albums are interspersed with too many "so so" tracks and this one is much along the same vein. Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2010 by Lucioperca
5.0 out of 5 stars
Blink self titled Review
Came when it said it would,
great quality,
greatt value
great purchase! (:
great quality,
greatt value
great purchase! (:
Published on 26 Aug 2010 by Chloe
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great album!
One of the best album of the blink 182, i really liked so much. The audio continue with a very high quality. My favourite song is 'I miss you'.
Published on 21 Feb 2010 by José Roberto Oliveira Nunes Filho
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